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Office of Violence Prevention 1000 S. Fremont Ave.,
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Alhambra, CA 91803

Phone: 626.293.2610
Email: ovp@ph.lacounty.gov


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  $25 Million in American Rescue Plan Funding
  for Trauma Prevention Partnerships

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The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), Trauma Prevention Partnerships (TPP), has provided funding to community-based organizations to promote peace and healing in communities disproportionately impacted by violence across LA County. This initiative is being implemented between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2024.

The Department of Public Health (DPH), Los Angeles County Office of Violence Prevention (OVP) received $20 Million in ARPA funds, as part of the County’s COVID-19 recovery plan, to implement Trauma Prevention Partnerships.  The Biden administration allocated ARPA funds to state and local governments, to support communities that have been historically disadvantaged and have experienced disproportionate impacts from the pandemic. For more information about the County’s plan for ARPA dollars, click here: https://ceo.lacounty.gov/recovery/arp/

View the latest 03.06.2024 News Release here

 

OVP - ARPA TPP is rooted in an equity framework

The OVP-ARPA TPP project is being implemented with an equity framework. Due to historical oppression, racism and discrimination, people of color are often not provided the same opportunities and resources needed for individuals, including youth and families, to thrive. This investment provides an opportunity to support communities and individuals disproportionately impacted by violence tied to oppression and racism. Ideal grantee partners will demonstrate how their work is inclusive of an equity framework and survivor centered approaches to advance peace and healing. It is our intention, to the best of our ability, to ensure that as many community members and stakeholders as possible are informed of the ARPA-TPP opportunities for funding, and to support the ability of all agencies, including small, grassroots organizations to apply and receive funding.

TPP will build on current strategies implemented by OVP and align with priorities that were defined in the OVP Strategic Plan. This includes evidence-based, innovative, and promising practices that are place based, community-driven, and culturally relevant to address multiple forms of violence. Funding will be prioritized for communities in Los Angeles County with the highest rates of ongoing violence and violence exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and support healing for non-geographically concentrated populations impacted by multiple forms of violence.  

  Funding Opportunities for Community-Based Organizations

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OVP has contracted with a third-party administrator, California Community Foundation, Inc. (CCF), to manage disbursement of ARPA-TPP project funding. 

    CCF awarded community-based organizations funding in the following categories:

  1. Crisis Response – Rapid, in-home, or in-community connections to the individuals and families directly affected by violent incidents, incorporating a peer approach and follow-up referrals to social service, mental health, and healing services.

  2. Peer-to-Peer Learning - Training to build capacity for a multi-disciplinary cohort of peer specialists to support prevention of violence, crisis response, peace keeping and healing.

  3. Youth Programs – A mix of evidence-based, emerging, and promising practices that promote positive youth development and youth leadership and organizing efforts around anti-violence and peace promotion.

  4. Trauma Informed Care/Community Healing – A mix of evidence-based, emerging, and promising practices that promote trauma informed care and healing services that support individual and community mental health and wellbeing.

  5. Community Hardship – A community fund that will provide mini-grants to address immediate client needs, such as: clothing, rent, food, utilities, or school supplies; support to grieving families; and support self-care activities for peer workers.

  6. School Safety Transformation Partnerships – Community Based Organizations (CBOs) applicants will work in partnership with school districts to support a holistic approach to safety and wellbeing, including school infrastucture, on-campus healing and wellbeing strategies, and community support strategies.

 ARPA Awardees

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A total of 17 programs – 7 in Hospital Intervention and 10 in Street Outreach – were awarded in the first round of ARPA funding, with work beginning July 2023.

Listed below are the awardees in each of these categories.

Street Outreach
The Street Outreach Program is Peer Intervention work to respond to violent incidents to calm tensions, mediate conflict, link victims to services, promote peace among neighborhoods and provide safe passages for young people.
Organization Street Outreach Priority Community
Venice 2000 (DBO Helper Foundation) Antelope Valley
Chapter Two, Inc. Compton
2nd Call Lynwood
Homies Unidos Women in Gangs
Bryant Temple AME Community Development Corporation Faith-Based
California Black Women's Health Project Lennox
Healing Urban Barrios Women in Gangs
(Lincoln Heights)
Southern California Crossroads Lennox
Southern California Crossroads Lynwood
Soledad Enrichment Action, Inc. El Monte
Hospital Violence Intervention Program (HVIP)
The Hospital Violence Intervention Program (HVIP) involves Community-based organizations partnering with hospital sites to build capacity to support victims of violence and provide peer mentoring and wraparound case management.
Organization Priority Hospitals
Antelope Valley Partners for Health Antelope Valley Hospital
Rancho Research Institute Rancho Los Amigos Rehabilitation Center
Southern California Crossroads California Hospital
Southern California Crossroads Saint Francis Medical Center
Southern California Crossroads Harbor UCLA Medica Center
Southern California Crossroads Pomona Valley Hospital
Soledad Enrichment Action, Inc. LA General Medical Center

The Peer to Peer Violence Prevention Academy contract was awarded in the second round of ARPA funding, with work beginning October 2023.

Peer-to-Peer Learning Academy
Training to build capacity for a multi-disciplinary cohort of peer specialists to support prevention of violence, crisis response, peace keeping and healing.
Organization Priority Community
Community Based Public Safety Collective Countywide

An additional 38 programs were awarded – including 13 Youth Programs, 14 Trauma Informed Care, 6 Crisis Response, and 5 School Safety Transformation Grants, with work beginning January 2024.

Youth Programs
A mix of evidence-based, emerging, and promising practices that promote positive youth development and youth leadership and organizing efforts around anti-violence and peace promotion.
Organization Priority Community
West Athens Westmont Community Task Force Westmont/West Athens
Empower Institute Inc. Willowbrook
Community Partners (FBO, Justice For My Sister) Compton
A Place Called Home Florence-Firestone/South LA
The Community Action League Antelope Valley
Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory East LA
YWCA San Gabriel Valley Puente Valley
House Of Ruth, Inc. Pomona
Helpline Youth Counseling, Inc. Hawaiian Gardens/Norwalk
Community Partners (FBO, Latino Equality Alliance) LGBTQIA2+
Rainbow LABS LGBTQIA2+
Coalition To Abolish Slavery And Trafficking Native American/Indigenous
Jenesse Center, Inc. System-Involved
Trauma Informed Care
A mix of evidence-based, emerging, and promising practices that promote trauma informed care and healing services that support individual and community mental health and wellbeing.
Organization Priority Community
Urban Community Actiion Network, Inc. Westmont/West Athens
On My Grind Reentry Services, Inc. Willowbrook
Drew Child Development Corporation Drew CDC
Special Service For Groups, Inc. Florence-Firestone
Homeboy Industries East LA
Helpline Youth Counseling, Inc. Puente Valley
Project Resilience Pomona
YWCA Glendale And Pasadena Native American/Indigenous
Alma Family Services Gender-Based Violence
United Friends Of The Children Formerly-Incarcerated/ Reentry
Spirit Awakening Foundation Trauma Informed Care (General)
Fear For Breakfast Trauma Informed Care (General)
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), INC. (FBO, Miry's List) Trauma Informed Care (General)
Phenomenal Angeles Of The Community Trauma Informed Care (General)
Crisis Response
Rapid, in-home, or in-community connections to the individuals and families directly affected by violent incidents, incorporating a peer approach and follow-up referrals to social service, mental health, and healing services.
Organization Priority Community
Soledad Enrichment Action, Inc. East LA/San Gabriel Valley
(SD 1)
Toberman Neighborhood Center, Inc. Southeast LA
(SD 4)
Venice 2000 (DBO Helper Foundation) Antelope Valley
(SD 5)
Coalition To Abolish Slavery And Trafficking Gender-Based Violence
Bryant Temple AME Community Development Corporation Other Community
Based On Need
The Sidewalk Project Other Community
Based On Need
School Safety Transformation
Community Based Organizations (CBOs) applicants will work in partnership with school districts to support a holistic approach to safety and wellbeing, including school infrastucture, on-campus healing and wellbeing strategies, and community support strategies.
Organization School District
Venice 2000 (DBO Helper Foundation) Antelope Valley Union
Centinela Youth Services Compton Unified
Just Us 4 Youth Pomona Unified
Southern California Crossroads Lynwood Unified
Inner City Visions Los Angeles Unified

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